I do recognise that a lot of it is probably just playing up for the joke, but I assume it has to come from somewhere. I regularly see posts where basically Person A sends an odd image/message, then follows up with “wrong number, sorry” and Person B responds with “wait stay”.
Do Americans, as a rule, not save phone numbers? Or is it purely a bit that has become a trope?
it’s purely a joke. I’ve maybe had four or five wrong-number calls. 2 were drunk women- sounded college age and were trying to order some sort of take out. The others … I was being screamed at in mandarin. I could be wrong, but the mandarin-speaker gave me “grandma got a hold of someone’s cell phone” vibes.
This is ignoring the DOT compliance services that keeps calling because the prior owner of my cell phone number was a construction company with commercial plates on their trucks- and who went bankrupt. The Compliance people were worse than the collections agencies. those stopped after 2 years… I’ve had this phone for over a decade now.
What phone and OS do you use and do you still get security updates?